| Description |
viii, 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Foreword / David Clarke -- 1. Technology : a fundamental structure? / Rias J. van Wyk -- 2. Knowledge mapping : the consolidation of the technology management discipline / Karol I. Pelc -- 3. Management of technology : a three-dimensional framework with propositions for future research / Jon W. Beard -- 4. Unique features of an R&D work environment and research scientists and engineers / Thomas E. Clarke -- 5. Understanding software technology / Richard A. Howey -- 6. The half-life of policy rationales : how new technology affects old policy issues / Fred Foldvary and Daniel Klein -- 7. Some philosophical thoughts on the nature of technology / John Cogan -- 8. The biology of technology - an exploratory essay / Peter Bond -- 9. Technological semantics and technological practice : lessons from an enigmatic episode in twentieth-century technology studies / Kelvin Willoughby |
| Summary |
"The history of technology is often troubled by good ideas that do not, for one reason or another, take off right away - sometimes for millennia. Sometimes technology comes to a standstill, and sometimes it even reverses itself. Thus, unlike science, which seems to proceed at a reasonable and calm rate, the progress of technology is difficult to theorize about. While in science many developments are predictable to a certain extent and this predictability may, at times, direct or stymie science's progress - as with stem-cell research and cloning - technological advances, such as the internet, are often sudden and unpredictable, and therefore frightening. In Theory of Technology, David Clarke brings together ten authors who try to understand technology from a variety of viewpoints."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Papers originally published in Knowledge, technology, & policy, Fall 2002, vol. 15, No. 3 and Fall 2003, Vol. 16, No. 3 |
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Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Technology -- Management.
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Technology -- History.
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| Author |
Clarke, David, 1942-
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| LC no. |
2004047954 |
| ISBN |
0765808447 paperback |
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